検索キーワード： 著者 "Gunnar Staalesen" すべてのカテゴリー

When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline 'YOUNG MAN MISSING', he realises he saw the youth just a few days earlier - en route to a demonstration against a commercial fish-farming facility in the tiny village of Solvik, north of Bergen. Varg heads to Solvik, initially out of curiosity, but when he chances upon a dead body in the sea, he's pulled into a dark and complex web of secrets, feuds and jealousies.

Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer, anxious to protect her privacy, asks Varg to find her sister, who has disappeared with her husband, seemingly without trace, while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast, and the authorities need answers. Varg immerses himself in the investigations, and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked, and have unsettling - and increasingly uncanny - similarities to events that took place 36 years earlier.

Varg Veum har to sager at løse: han skal finde en ung kvinde, som er forsvundet i Bergens narkomiljø, og hjælpe en sydafrikansk mand i hans kamp mod udlændingepolitiets bureaukrati. Det tager ikke lang tid, før Veum forstår, at de to sager er forbundne.

Efter en henvendelse fra en mor dykker Varg Veum ned i Bergens underverden og finder et modbydeligt og dødsensfarligt net af prostitution blandt teenagepiger.